{"id":384007,"date":"2026-08-28T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384007\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:16:09","slug":"miami-dade-man-accused-of-distributing-child-sexual-abuse-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384007\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade man accused of distributing child sexual abuse videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/GVDURVQ2ONCURMPLJLQXYSNUKU.jpg\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>Christian Constantiny (MDCR) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Miami-Dade man is facing a dozen felony charges after sheriff\u2019s deputies said he was distributing child sexual abuse videos on the messaging platform Kik.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Christian Demostenes Constantiny, 31, was taken into custody on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, a search warrant on his Kik account revealed \u201c(numerous) files and chat logs\u201d of Constantiny distributing illicit videos of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the videos depicted boys and girls as young as 3 being raped and sexually abused.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The MDSO report includes two chat logs where deputies said Constantiny was communicating with users who said they were 13 and 17, sharing child sexual abuse material with them. They said he claimed to be 21 in one of the chats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said they took Constantiny into custody at a home near Northwest 17th Avenue and 87th Street in the county\u2019s West Little River area on Thursday. They said he invoked his right to remain silent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Records show he was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $30,000 bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Constantiny\u2019s arrest report lists his occupation as \u201cteacher.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An official directory associated Constantiny with Miami Dade College, but an MDC spokesperson told Local 10 News that while he worked at one point as an adjunct instructor, he \u201chas no current employment or teaching relationship\u201d with the school and the allegations occurred after he left MDC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It\u2019s unclear whether he was employed by anyone else as a teacher at the time of his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Chris Gothner\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3be3b5ed-fb4b-43ce-8b.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Chris Gothner <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Chris Gothner joined the Local 10 News team in 2022 as a Digital Journalist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 28, 2026 at 6:10 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandChristian Constantiny (MDCR) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Miami-Dade man is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-384007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}